[NFBF-L] Legislative Priorities Announced for 118th Congress and for 2023 Washington Seminar

[PLipovsky]

Where can I find the legislative priorities?  When I click on the attachment, it takes me to note pad, but the priorities are not listed.

 

Thanks.

 

Patricia Lipovsky 

 

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Thank you so much Judy.  I am so proud to be part of the team and I know that with those participating both virtually and in person, Florida will do great and set all kinds of records.  Take care.

 

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Congrats, Sherri and all.

Judy Hamilton

 

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 9:19 PM Sherri Brun via NFBF-L <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfbf-l at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

I am so excited and honored to have been chosen to participate in the upcoming Washington Seminar.  I am especially excited that our wonderful students are involved.  Like Russ said, I hope I can keep up.  I also want to thank Camille and Russ for all you do for legislation in our state.  Great job!!!

 

Sherri

 

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Subject: [NFBF-L] Legislative Priorities Announced for 118th Congress and for 2023 Washington Seminar

 

Hello Again Everyone,

 

The Office of Advocacy and Policy for the National Federation of the Blind has provided information regarding the three legislative priorities for the upcoming Washington Seminar and for the start of the 118th Congress. We eagerly await this exciting announcement each December and so, I am glad to be able to provide you with the information as it currently stands.

 

Two of the three bills are familiar to us already and the third is new to us. The issues are:

 

1.	Website and Software Applications Accessibility Act
2.	Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act
3.	Eliminating the "Earnings Cliff" for SSDI.

 

Fact sheets for these three prospective pieces of legislation are being developed and should be released sometime around January 6th, 2023. Although the fact sheets for the Medical and Website bills will most likely look a bit differently than they did in the 117th Congress, it might be helpful to read over them again. Remember too that the bills will have new House and Senate bill numbers once they are reintroduced.

 

As for the Access Technology Affordability Act, we are watching carefully the proceedings for the omnibus and tax extension bills working there way through Congress this month. We are hopeful that the ATAA will be included in the large package of bills that may come up for a vote before the 118th Congress adjourns. If the ATAA does not get passed into law this year, we are hopeful we will see it again sometime in early 2023 and can recapture the tremendous amount of support it currently has.

 

I hope that this information has been helpful to you and I look forward to sharing more soon.

 

Respectfully,


Russ Davis, Co-Legislative Director,

National Federation of the Blind of Florida

Ph. 904-993-8433

Email: russell at radiorusty.com <mailto:russell at radiorusty.com> 

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